Improved weather-strip



No. 99.982. W 'P-atented Feb.15. 1870. 4

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nitrtl '(tzrte `WILLIAM MILLER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

'Letters Patent No. 99,932, dated February 15, 1870.

IMP ROVED WEATEER-S'I'RHP. I

The Scheule rererred toin these Letters fatent and making part o! the same.

To all 'whom it 'may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM MILLER, of Boston, Sufl'olk count-y, in the State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new andimproved Rubber Molding; `and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description thereof, which will enable others' skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings formin part of this specification, in whichw 1 igure 1 represents a portion of a sheet of my improved molding before it is cut apart.

Figure 2 are cross-Sections of pieces of my improred moldiug,I showing different forms.

Fignre 3 is a cross-section of a piece of the same, `illustrating its use.

My invention has for its'object to furnish au im-v proved rubber molding, which shall he so formed as to adapt it for use around windows, doors, 8m., as weatherstrips, to prevent the wet and cold from finding their way in around said doors and windows; and

It consists in the molding constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

The molding is made in s'heets of any desired numher of strips in a sheet, and of any desired length7 according to the size of the molds in which it is made.

The molds for making the molding are made of iron or other suitable material, and the groovcs in which the projecting parts A of the moldings are formed are made parallel with each other, and ot' such a form as it is desired that the said projectiog part of the molding should have.

. 'ilheigrooves of the molds, which should be about t-hree-sixteenths of an 'inch apart, are filled with a composition of rnbber.

A stripof rubber packing, B, is then spread over theniolds, and a plate of iron is then placed upon the top of the packingand pressed down upon the mold. The molds are then subjected to a greater or lesser heat, according as the hard part of the molding is required to be more or less hard. lThe projeoting part A of the molding will thus be hard ondcapable of receiving a polish, while the Sheet of packing B, which forms the flauge, will remain soft and will 'be permanent-ly united to the hard part. The strips are then cut apart by'cutting along one side of the-projecting' or. hard part A of the molding, as shown in figs. 2 and 3. i

Molding thus constructed can be much more convenieritly applied' to cnrved windows and doors than the ordinary Wood and rubber moldings.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patento An improved rubber molding, formed by uniting soft-rubber pa-cking, to form the flange, with a' hardrubber projecting part, substantially as herein shown and desrribed, land for the purpnse set forth..

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 6th day of January, 1870.

WILLIAM MILLER.

Witnesses: f

A. W. ADAMs, S. B. HAsTmGs. 

